Improvement in ditching-machines



H. GONELLAZ.

DITCHING-MACHINE. No.175,692. Patented April, 1876.

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HYACINTHE GONELLAZ, OF VERMI-LLIONVILLE, LOUISIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN DlTCHlNG-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l75,692,'dated April 4,1876 application filed February 5, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HYAGINTHE GONELLAZ, ofVermillionville, in' the parish of Lafayette and State of Louisiana,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ditching-Machii'ie, ofwhich the following is a specification:

Figure l is a longitudinal section of my improved machine taken throughthe line a: w w a: a: 00, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same, partbeing broken away to show the construction. Fig. 3 is a detail verticalsection taken through the line y 3 Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail top viewof the plow or shovel.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to improve the construction of theditching-machine for which Letters Patent No. 140,820 were granted to meJuly 15,1873, so as to make it more effective in operation.

The inventionconsists in the combination of the plow and its standardwith the frame and the ditching-wheel; in the combination of the rod,the block, the colters, the scrapers, and spring, and the crank-arm andits connecting-rod with the frame, the plow, the ditching-wheel, and thelever that drives said ditching-wheel; and in the combination of theshovel and its pivoted bars with the frame and withthe pawl-bars thatdrive the ditchingwheel, as hereinafter fully described.

A is the frame of the machine, which is supported upon wheels B. Thewheels B are pivoted to the lower ends of rack-bars G, which slide inguides or ways D attached to the frame A, and are secured in place bypins E passed through lugs formed upon the ways D, and through thenotches of the rack-bars C, so that the machine can be readily loweredas the ditch increases in depth. The soil is raised from the ditch anddeposited upon the ground at the side of the ditch by the ditching-wheelF and the discharging-pan G, which are constructed and operated in themanner described in Letters Patent No. 140,820, and about theconstruction of which there is nothing new. The slice to be raised isseparated from the soil beneath it, so as to leave the bottom of theditch smooth, by a plow, H, the side edges of which are turned up orflanged, and which is attached at its center to the lower end of astandard, I. The standard I rests against and passes through a guide, J,attached to a cross-bar, a of the frame A, and its upper end passes upthrough a guide, J, attached to another cross-bar, a of the frame A. Thestandard I is secured to the upper guide J by a pin which passes throughone or another of a number of notches or holes formed inthe saidstandard, so that the plow may be readily adjusted 'to work deeper orshallower in the ground. Through theforward parts of the guides J ispassed a rod, K, to which is hinged a wooden beam or block, L, to theforward side of which are attached forward]y-projecting colters M,which, as the block L is oscillated, loosen the soil above the plow H.To the edges of the forward side of the block L are hinged two scrapers,N, which are curved outward and backward so as to scrape off the soilfrom the forward end and sides of the ditch, and throw it back .so thatit will be taken up by the buckets of the ditching-wheel F. The scrapersN are supported when scraping the soil by a spring or springs, 0,attached to the block L, and which bear against the outer side of theupper ends of the said scrapers. To the upper part of the block L isattached a crank, P, to which is pivoted one end of a connecting-bar, Q,the other end of which is pivoted to one of the levers R that drive theditching-wheel F, so that the colters M and scrapers N may be oscillatedby the mechanism that operates the said ditching-wheel F. The block Lmay be moved up and down upon the rod K as may be desired. S is ashovel, the rear edge of which is pivoted to the ends of two bars, T,the upper ends of which are pivoted to the rear cross-bar of the frameA. To the rear edge of the shovel S are also pivoted the rear ends oftwo bars, U, the forward ends of which are pivoted to the pawl-bars Vthat drive the ditching-wheel F. By this arrangement the shovel S willbe drawn forward at each movement of the ditchingwheel F to scrape upany soil that may be missed by the buckets of said wheel F, or that maybe dropped while being transferred from the ditchingwheel F to thedischarging-pan G, and thus leave the bottom of the ditch smooth andclean. As the soil accummulates upon the shovel S-it will be taken offby the buckets of the ditching-wheel F.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Pat ent- 1. The combination of the plow H and its standard Iwith the frame A and the ditching-wheel F, substantially as herein shownand described.

2. The combination of the rod K, the block L, the eolters M, thescrapers and spring N O, andthe crank-arm and connecting-rod P Q, withthe frame A, the plow H I, the ditchingwheel F, and the lever B thatdrives said ditching-wheel, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. The combination of the shovel S and its pivoted bars T U with theframe A and with the pawl-bars V that drive the ditching-wheel F,substantially as herein shown and described.

HYAOINTHE GONELLAZ.

Witnesses:

JAS. A. OHARGOIs, (J. D. UAFFERY.

